Down to Earth is easier when we stop trying to elevate ourselves. People like “down to earth” people,  God knows that we do. Christmas’s backhouse stable manger birth for Jesus was the gift of as much “down to earth” as imaginable. Jesus could come. Jesus would come. Jesus DID come. Immanuel, God with us. Let us be down to earth too.

Hidden Gems, people love Hidden Gems like in places to visit, restaurants to try, nooks and crannies of goodness, and yes the gem of beauty reserved for only a few spying eyes. The most beautiful Hidden secure open space we can retreat to and spring from is that private place where God and we meet. Let’s meet Him there, every day. God with us, Immanuel. 

There’s a praise song that ponders the mind, sings of a chapter of Jesus’s life we don’t hear about, when He as a child was securely taken away to Egypt by His parents, Mary and Joseph, to prevent discovery of him as a baby to be killed, as that generation was when Herod tried to eliminate any prophet-predicted earthly king to contest his earthly throne. The song, by Rich Mullins, is “My Deliverer” to represent the scattered Israelite community in Egypt (and everywhere) knowing about their Deliverer coming to deliver them (deliver us). Jesus hears them, He hears us. It’s a hopeful song, catchy to us too, envisioned yet it’s a real thing that people seeked their Deliverer, of devoted scripture readers and prophesy believers, cries of the oppressed and depressed. Visions and education given to the chosen few whose Holy Spirit hopes kept them waiting for the Savior, not just earthly but divine. And then teaching others about the delivery deliverance,  Deliverer. Like Simeon, old man in Temple visits choosing to praise God in anticipation of beholding our/his Deliverer, our/his Savior, our/his Hope and the Hope of the nation, and of us all. Prayer delivered and answered by seeing Jesus Babe, his own Deliverer, down to earth. 

“My Deliverer is coming” – He Came, He will Come Again.

This Christmas, let us be seekers for our Deliverer too. Our down to earth, hidden Gem, personal Savior, Who came not to judge us, but for us to be Saved through Him. John 3:17 “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him“,…. the Only Son of God.

Amen

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Here’s the catchy envigorating song:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HxPlrvrE0uU&si=xCllvG8vTWDw9jE3  My Deliverer is Coming, “Jesus heard the whole world cry, for the healin’ that would flow from His own scars. The world was singin’: My deliverer is comin’, my deliverer is standin’ by…”